- Horace Mann
(05/04/1796 – 08/02/1859)
US educator
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"A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron."
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"Try to learn something about everything and everything about something."
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"Transplanting the ballet to the US is like trying to raise a palm tree in Dakota."
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"I was asked to act when I couldn't act. I was asked to sing 'Funny Face' when I couldn't sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn't dance—and do all kinds of things I wasn't prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it."
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"She was a patron saint of the peripheral."
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"I'll never die. I'll just explode, right there before your eyes, onstage."
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"Football combines the two worst features of America life: violence and committee meetings."
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"My contribution to the world is my ability to draw. I will draw as much as I can for as many people as I can for as long as I can. Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic."
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"I'm a liberal inside a liberal's body."
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